Los Planetas share their rereading of the bolero “Dos cruzes”

“Dos cruzes” is a bolero signed in 1952 by Carmelo Larrea and Gunther Manuel Salinger and is a look at the past from a perspective that fits perfectly into the universe of the Granada group.

The song comes five years after “The Songs of Water”a compilation album of songs published between 2020 and 2022 in different ways.

To understand the real scope of this release, they comment from their press office, it is advisable to “ask ourselves a prior question: what does it mean that a work like “Two Crosses” is resurrected in a sound territory that is foreign to it and in a time governed by the relentless demand for immediate revenue? The algorithm prioritizes incessant novelty. What is no longer shown, for practical purposes, ceases to exist: an administrative death that acts as an implacable filter on memory, replacing it with noise ultra-processed and sterile. Restoring “Two Crosses” is (also) an act of insubordination that goes against that logic.

The work of art is rewritten, reactivated and completed in each interpretive act. Los Planetas naturally revisits, far from opportunism, archaeological whim, decorative occurrence and postmodern irony, a piece about tearing and loss, consistent with its imaginary. They take it to their terrain through a rhythmic, contained reading that sustains its intensity in a singular weightlessness; There, in the open, the dramatic core of the bolero resists intact, and completes and explains the place from which the group operates today. “It acts as a spirit that reappears to shake the present, reminding us that maintaining a critical distance from it allows us to better perceive its darkness and its outstanding debts.”